Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 2 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 3 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 4 | Adjusting this income to allow for the rise in prices , it seems that the real income fell by more than one-third . |
| 5 | Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace . |
| 6 | A man who spent four heady years as an undergraduate was often advised to go to another place to train for the ministry . |
| 7 | This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation , the development of new ideas and products . |
| 8 | To avoid any more personal suffering I say he should contemplate going now to give his successor the chance to build a proper team to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 9 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 10 | Though his first political sympathies were with the Union and the right-wing of the Conservative party , William Joyce subsequently held English misgovernment to blame for the loss of Ireland . |
| 11 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 12 | Nevertheless I am convinced that where , as here , a party can satisfy the court that there is a genuine risk of prosecution for some offence which is not within the scope of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 ’ — e.g. conspiracy — ‘ or any similar statutory provision , it is not open to this court to substitute for the privilege against self-incrimination some other protection based on an order restricting the use of disclosed material . |
| 13 | This moral variety may seem a high price to pay for the resolution of the problem of holism . |
| 14 | There has , however , been a very high price to pay for the opportunity offered by this large ‘ home market ’ . |
| 15 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 16 | Both sides agreed that a multi-party planning conference should be held later this month to prepare for the full constitutional negotiating session . |
| 17 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 18 | Trivers ( 1971 ) used essentially this argument to account for the evolution of ‘ reciprocal altruism ’ , in which animals cooperate only with those that cooperate with them . |
| 19 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 20 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 21 | Surely you must have some urge to fight for the company Gran founded on caring , sharing principles … ? ’ |
| 22 | 6.3 The Lease shall be completed on the Completion Date at the offices of the Landlord 's solicitors or at such other place as the Landlord 's solicitors shall [ reasonably ] require The parties ' solicitors will normally agree to complete without the necessity for personal attendance , but the tenant 's solicitor may wish to amend this clause to provide for the agreed arrangements regarding completion , particularly where the landlord 's solicitor 's office is in Berwick-upon-Tweed and the tenant 's solicitor is in Penzance . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 24 | During their time off , there was an exciting world to explore for the adventurous . |
| 25 | Now Ingrams has found a new hobby in his retirement , the Oldie , a publication with extra-large print to cater for the antiquated myope . |
| 26 | Cut out the square or rectangle just inside the marked line to allow for the thickness of the tin . |
| 27 | Furthermore , he had to counter the claim of the French crown to legislate for the duchy . |
| 28 | Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment . |
| 29 | Municipal autonomy in the regions of Italy and state autonomy in the USA seems to go some way to account for the ease of transfer of care . |
| 30 | The river is to be diverted along the man-made channel later this year to allow for the construction of a barrage on the natural river bed . |